I wish to extend my sincere condolence to the survivors of Eliadora Deguito, my first cousin on my father’s side, who passed away about a week ago, and whose interment it was today.
Elia was my playmate during my early years in Batangas, before the ancestral home burned down. We’d stay in one of the rooms […]
Continue reading about Eliadora Panganiban Deguito, 1942-2008
Looking at this photo after a long period of not seeing it, I’m struck at how big Den’s eyeglasses are for him. Since he looks so boyish (he was just/already 30!] he looks like a boy trying on the elders’ eyeglasses and not caught yet, except by the camera.
I’m also struck at […]
Ted Kennedy:The Lion in Winter
Posted May 23, 2008 | 06:49 PM (EST)
In the 1962 campaign to fill the Senate seat vacated by President Kennedy, the then state Attorney General dismissed his primary opponent by stating that “if your name was Edward Moore instead of Edward Moore Kennedy, your candidacy would be a farce.” […]
… There’re those who initiate something that others dare not initiate, but manage not to finish it. There’re those who pick up to finish something that others have initiated and started. There’re those who don’t start anything or pick upon something started. And there’re the rare ones who initiate and finish what they initiated. Success […]
[An edited version of this eulogy is to be found in Social Science Diliman (January-December 2007) 4:1-2, 137-140. The version below was transcribed by myself from Dr. David’s printed-out copy. –Ethel P. David, April 17, 2009]
FOR A.V. LAGMAY: A EULOGY
Palma Hall, U.P., Diliman, Q.C.
20 December 2005
T.S. ELIOT, a great Nobel Poet, broods in his famous play, […]
Who can read a crystal ball? But who can, indeed, since there seems to be none. Shakespeare knew, and he knew that, dear Brutus, our fate is not in our stars, but in our weak hearts, that we are underlings. There is no star made for anyone at his time of birth, to shine on until he […]
Sonnet XCVII by William Shakespeare
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December’s bareness everywhere!
And yet this time remov’d was summer’s time,
The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
Like widow’d wombs after their lords’ […]
Dr David’s website has a new look, thanks to Cyril and Faye. Cyril is our resident website developer and Faye is our resident expert with a keen eye for visuals. To both of them, my thanks for this refreshing change, which also marks the one year anniversary of this website.
August 12, 2008
… Independence is an act of will, and will needs training or learning. While will is a candle of life, given at conception or birth, it requires igniting to kindle. It requires air and space to shine large. (In this regard and using a different metaphor, I usually tell my students that it takes one […]